Fall Quotes

Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk.

Blaise Pascal

They were anticipating a different kind of immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad, it turned out to be not exactly as they had anticipated.

Colin Powell

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this

Miyamoto Musashi

The mark of a true crush Is that you fall in love first And grope for reasons afterward.

Shana Alexander

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity

William Butler Yeats

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

Albert Camus†

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Karl Lagerfeld

All things do help the unhappy man to fall.

John Webster

I've had a good day when I don't fall out of the cart.

Buddy Hackett

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Charles Babbage

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Forget love ñ I would rather fall in chocolate.

Sandra J. Dykes

When you fall in love with golf, you seldom fall easy. It's obsession at first sight

Thomas Boswell

Some must be great. Great offices will have Great talents. And God gives to every man The virtue, temper, understanding, taste, That lifts him into life, and lets him fall Just in the niche he was ordain'd to fill.

William Cowper